The Location Guide had a conversation with producer Neil Andrews from Pulse Films, celebrating the production company's 'Flip' commercial for B&Q winning a Bronze Lion for Achievement in Production at Cannes Lions 2022. We discussed how Neil and the team made the project a reality with Icon Films Sofia, exploring why Bulgaria was chosen for this monumental shoot.
Stage Fifty has revealed its plans for Wycombe Film Studios, a new eight-stage boutique studio. Temporary planning applications have been submitted to Buckinghamshire Council for a Hollywood feature film that will start shooting in 2022. An application for a permanent studio will follow later this year, transforming a 26-acre site located just off the M40 to the southwest of High Wycombe into a class-leading sustainable film studio. An influx of over 1,000 jobs – both temporary and full-time – will be supported by the new construction.
Kyiv-based company Radioaktive is set to move its production base to Poland. The group shares offices in the country with service specialists TwentyfourSeven, where the two companies launched a joint production venture. Together, the organisations will donate all profits raised through their partnership to Ukrainian causes until tensions with Russia subside.
Coming out of the company’s investment in local sports communities “wherever you take training” tells stories from local communities. The first two chapters, released in January feature Emma-Jane Smith, Scotland’s strongest woman and inner-city London community champion Foysol Miah.
Shot in Liverpool, the production used a former location of critically acclaimed TV drama, Peaky Blinders (pictured below) to build sets for the visual spot that sees legendary footballer Mo Salah reflect on his success, and the challenges and ambition that got him to be where he is today.
I have a real patchwork vita but it has always been about media. I studied visual communications at college and my first experience with scouting was 18 years ago when I worked as a production assistant for a commercial production company. We had a big shoot for a Burger King spot coming up. The client wanted to shoot a Motorcycle Chapter Clubhouse full of bikers. I thought "this is exciting, I can do this".
I started as a runner on the American TV show Xena: Warrior Princess, which was being filmed in New Zealand in the mid 1990s, so I have worked my way up the ladder from the bottom. I have worked as a 1st or 2nd AD on over 25 dramas such as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Yogi Bear, The Shannara Chronicles and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny.
Korean outdoor apparel brand NEPA decided to use iconic New York City locations to showcase their latest line of clothing. MediaCombo serviced the shoot and found the locations which would add urban glamour to the spot.